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[xxxxxy] 06/12/2020 15:03

General Secretary of the Unite Union, Len McCluskey, tells Times Radio's the Labour Party should back a post-Brexit trade deal if one is agreed. Speaking to Gloria De Piero and Tom Newton Dunn he said:In my opinion let's get Brexit done and out of the way. Of course it won't stop us being critical if indeed. The deal gives us all kinds of issues and problems going forward. My union's been consistent in wanting to defend jobs, defend investment and try to make certain that we still have an economy that is fit for purpose and can compete against our European competitors.Everybody wants Brexit done and the quicker we get it out of the way the better. The uncertainty that exists is damaging all of the major companies that I deal with.Did you ever think you would see the day when Red Len was parroting Tory slogans?Order Order....Commonsense. Breath of fresh air.

[misterbluesky] 06/12/2020 14:59

By the way Nigel Farage is anti EU free movements and that is on records.

[misterbluesky] 06/12/2020 14:53

diku~ If so why Nigel Farage is not giving up that £73,000 EU pension while the rest of us has to suffer from the economic consequences of his actions and Brexit.

[portside1] 06/12/2020 14:49

Eku. Do you know why these kids today ignore ever rule Because no whip. Hope that answer you post No whip they do what they like

[bargainbob] 06/12/2020 14:43

Utricky at his best .

[diku] 06/12/2020 14:41

Post 322786...Nigel Farage has nothing against people of EU...I think he is against the set up establishment of the EU...how the EU club is run...

[xxxxxy] 06/12/2020 14:36

Remember...Why we voted leaveBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: MARCH 23, 2018On 23rd June 2016 17.4 million voters told Parliament we should leave the EU.Leave voters voted to take back control.We voted to take back control of our money, our laws and our borders.We voted to be a sovereign people again.The overarching aim is to restore our freedomsTo become self governing as we used to beWe wish our Parliaments to frame our lawsTo levy and spend out taxesTo make our borders safeTo award the precious gift of citizenship to those we choose to inviteWe did not vote in the belief that future Parliaments will always be wiseNor that they will always get it rightWe voted to restore powers to Parliament because it is our ParliamentWe can lobby and influence itWe can dismiss it and replace the MPs when they no longer please.I find it surprising that some find it difficult to understand this overriding wishFor it is based on our long standing pursuit of freedomIt springs from our historyThe history of the UK is the story of the long march of every man and every woman to the voteThe story of asserting the rule of law against all, however mighty.We prize the gift of freedom under the law for all on an equal basisWe share an aversion to slaveryA dislike of military ruleA resistance to arbitrary governmentA rejection of the patronising errors of elitesA distaste for overmighty bureaucracies cramping our freedomsA belief that we should be free to do whatever we please unless the laws prevents itThe signposts to democracy run through Magna Carta to the first ParliamentsFrom the 1660 settlement to the Glorious RevolutionFrom the Great Reform Act to the triumph of the suffragettesWe carelessly lost some of these freedoms,casting away much of the power of our vote and voiceby passing powers to the European UnionWe allowed the EU to impose laws we did not wantTo levy taxes we disagreed withAnd to spend our money as they saw fitBrexit is designed to recall those lost powers

[xxxxxy] 06/12/2020 14:34

Thumbs down.For the EUSSR.No DealWTOLiberty

[misterbluesky] 06/12/2020 14:33

Nigel Farage is one of the biggest Brexiteer hypocrites with his £73,000 EU pension...

Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage, who has spent his entire career arguing for Brexit, and slagging off the European parliament from his seat in the … European parliament, has announced that, no, he will not be giving up his £73,000 per annum EU pension. Because, as he understandably explained: “Why should my family suffer?” Quite right. The rest of our families, bracing for an economic hit, a shortage of NHS staff to take care of us, a possible destruction of relationships and a narrowing of travel options, can suck it up. Then again, Farage is not new to hypocrisy. A privately educated former banker who rails against the establishment. An anti-immigration, anti-free-movement politician who has a German wife, and two of whose children have German passports. (Oh, and letting a French politician stay in his London home.) I half expect him to come out against tweed suits and pints of beer.

[xxxxxy] 06/12/2020 14:33

Britain's world-leading fintech industry will continue to flourish post-Brexit, according to the Irish billionaire co-founder of payments giant Stripe. John Collison, whose company is worth up to $100bn, said he was "very bullish" about the prospects of the UK's financial technology sector, which attracted £38.4bn in investments in 2019, up from £20.1bn a year earlier. Growth of the sector over the past five years, he said, was "crazy and impressive".The Stripe chief believes that "even post-Brexit" financial technology companies such as Monzo and Revolut have a large enough domestic market to address to build a meaningful business that can then expand internationally."I think it's more advanced than the US, where Americans think they're the leader in everything," he added.A global leader  The UK has developed a world-leading financial technology sector in part due to light-touch regulation overseen by the Bank of England which has allowed start-ups to quickly gain e-money licences, allowing them to hold customer funds without spending years waiting on full traditional banking licences.London is also home to the centres of the UK's banking, political and technology sectors, enabling start-ups to easily lobby for better regulations while also raising capital.  By contrast, America's financial technology hub has been in New York, far away from most of the country's technology investors in Silicon Valley.Mr Collison said that Brexit had very rightly put a spotlight on trade barriers and that Stripe was "obsessed" with knocking down such barriers like cross-border financial regulations.The payments giant allows companies to process payments from customers online quickly, taking a cut of around 1.4pc and a flat fee of 20p per transaction. He also predicted that physical retail "is not going away" despite the ongoing struggles of high streets across the country.High street survival The Stripe founder's comments come after Sir Philip Green's Arcadia was thrust into administration while efforts to rescue Debenhams have fallen flat in a devastating week for brick and mortar shopping."If you browse the high street or walk around Bond Street in London, presumably that's not going away," he said. He added that a lot of businesses that had "deferred" spending on setting up online stores were pivoting towards "show-rooming"."People have a back-end where they're doing lots of online orders and then maybe have a small number of physical stores, we think this will become much more common," he said.... Michael Cogley... Daily Telegraph

[misterbluesky] 06/12/2020 14:28

The Blinkered Brexiteers claim to care so much about the great British Isles yet they are prepared to leave NI behind in the EU in the 'backstop' and move on.

They are a bunch of complete and utter hypocrites.

[nick100] 06/12/2020 13:36

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-9021737/Leak-raisee-questions-future-Lloyds-branches.html

[mikemichael2] 06/12/2020 13:22

So you find it 'amusing' that the UK is struggling eh Alp.

[minerve 2] 06/12/2020 13:12

Alphorn

"Several posters on here have real issues"

Don't they just! :)

Multiply that by how many up and down the country and it comes as no surprise as to why we have some serious problems to deal with.

[scruff1] 06/12/2020 13:12

Minnie
In 100% agreement. And isnt that the real shame

[xxxxxy] 06/12/2020 12:57

Mike StallardPosted December 6, 2020 at 9:06 am | PermalinkOut here in the provinces (I live int he Fens) Boris is coming under fire for tiers and covid. This is a deeply Conservative area too.However, I praise him and the Cabinet for standing firm. The EU is going on a completely different trajectory to us: it wants bigness, unity and Soviet type Commission government. We have rejected that roundly out here, but not, it seems has it yet been abandoned in London.Boris has seen this and he is standing firm. I praise him and the government for that.And well done, Sir John for your loyal support for us out here away from London!

[utrickytrees] 06/12/2020 12:55

You sort of get the feeling the Jocks would rather see French and Spanish boats in their waters other than anything out of Grimsby or Hull.

[xxxxxy] 06/12/2020 12:54

Dave AndrewsPosted December 6, 2020 at 9:39 am | PermalinkBBC correspondent on Marr remarked that the German papers aren't reporting German car manufacturers screaming for a deal to be signed to protect their business.Maybe the German MSM don't want to report on what the car manufacturers think, and maybe those companies are led by Europhiles as well, wedded to that religion.Perhaps they should ask the Irish beef farmers what they think about losing a €1bn a year business, as their beef suddenly hits a 40% tariff (and the rest) on coming to the UK and becomes uncompetitive.